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Food labelling: Consistent system ‘to start next year’ By Nick Triggle A consistent system of front-of-pack food labelling will be introduced in the UK next year, the government says. A combination of guideline daily amounts, colour coding and “high, medium or low” wording will be used to show how much fat, salt and sugar and… Read more

I am delighted that I have been engaged by several forward looking companies to provide some dynamic workshops to start the transformation in employee engagement with health and wellness. Have you booked your Wellness Day? Progressive companies look to provide Wellness Days as part of employee benefits – it is beneficial of course to the… Read more

I am delighted to have been appointed to the advisory board of Ingredients Insight Magazine. The first issue will be out shortly – my first contribution is about how we have to be authentic to the consumer and make sure that we are as tranparent and open in our labelling and in what we put… Read more

The most consistent and overriding theme, has been that of VUCA world – Volatile, Unpredictable, Complex and Ambiguous. As ever, the Americans have coined this phrase to describe the unsettled times we find ourselves in at the moment. I have yet to find a region or an organisation that are not subject to the… Read more

It is interesting that in America Health and Wellness is such a huge topic. It is a huge topic because by and large HealthCare is met by private health care insurance. These health insurance company’s payouts escalate if there is no duty of care by the employer to step up in terms of Wellbeing. It… Read more

We should be rightly proud of the advances we have made in modern medicine. Just look at the ultra technical generation of operating “robots” like the Da Vinci which is so precise it can peel the skin off a grape, let alone what that means for delicate operations like prostatectomy surgery. We are… Read more

A nutritionist, Mike Lean of Glasgow University and Donnie Maclean (a businessman) have developed the world’s first healthy Pizza (03 July 2012) Maclean has a range of toppings that incorporate nutrients such as magnesium, potassium, folates, vitamin C and A. The toppings include roasted cherry tomatoes, red peppers and sweet caramelised onions, the BBC reported…. Read more

NYC’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proposed banning the sales of super large portions of soda, a ‘Super-Size Soda Ban’. Super-sizing is common in the States where the large sizes were originally born out of the “need” for construction workers and manual workers to stay hydrated during a long hot day. Of course, says the industry,… Read more

A demotivated workforce will not work to their full capacity, finding ways to motivate employees is vital to any company. I think that Cary Cooper, From Robertson Cooper has an extremely interesting comment on a recent article. He says on his recent blog “Are 10% of your workforce dormant? HR Magazine have today (30/5/12) reported… Read more

My Latest Book! Positive Nutrition: How to upgrade your energy for work and life

As our lives speed up at an ever frantic pace, we can find that we just don’t have the energy currency to keep up. What if getting the focused energy we need is nothing more than understanding the rules, and then putting in a strategic eating plan to deliver concrete results? Kate Cook delivers a down-to-earth, no-nonsense approach to eating well. With so much confusion around diet, food, and eating, this book aims to get a clear eating structure in place, empowering the reader to make wise and nurturing choices around food, for both work dynamism and focused-living.